Enduring questions in gerontology / edited by Debra J. Sheets, Dana Burr Bradley, Jon Hendricks.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2006Description: xvi, 296 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0826164153 [hardbound]Subject(s): Gerontology | Aging | GeriatricsDDC classification: Online resources: Table of contents onlyItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | 305.26 En56 2006 (Browse shelf) | Available | 3UCBL000007593 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Prologue: finding new beacons: searching for timeless and interdisciplinary perspectives / George L. Maddox -- Identifying enduring questions in gerontology / Jon Hendricks, Debra Sheets, and Dana Burr Bradley -- A biologist's perspective: whence come we, where are we, whither go we? / Steven N. Austad -- New avenues, new questions, and changing perspectives in geriatric medicine / Kenneth Brummel-Smith -- New avenues, new questions, and changing perspectives in geriatric medicine / Kenneth Brummel-Smith -- The analytic template in the psychology of aging / Manfred Diehl and Alissa Dark-Freudeman -- The dynamic nature of societal aging in a global perspective / Chris Phillipson -- Whatever happened to culture? / Christine L. Fry -- The contributions of philosophy and ethics in the study of age / Martha Holstein and Mark Waymack -- Historical gerontology: it is a matter of time / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- The purview and sweep of aging policy / Phoebe S. Liebig -- Epilogue: gerontology-past, present, and future / James E. Birren.
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